another bookmark
Apr. 24th, 2015 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kate_nepveuThis one's up for auction at Con or Bust (I'm offering a custom-made one, too).
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The weird waviness is it being unduly flattened by the scanner, because I tried for way too long to get accurate colors with a camera and GIMP and could not.
Pattern by Teresa Wentzler (and a giant pain, it varies the height of the rows it puts in and so I had to take a ruler and pencil in lines so that I could have a proper 1 square = 1 stitch chart). Stitched over two on Antique White MCG evenweave; main stitching in silk, Caron Waterlillies, Cherry 101; satin stitch and Algerian eyelets in DMC pearl cotton size 12, Ecru (best way to do satin stitches EVER); backstitch in DMC 801 (done over one on the diagonals); shiny bits in Krenik #4 Braid Beige (013).
The colors don't quite glow the way I wanted when I saw the silk in the store, but I'm pretty happy with it all the same.
Click to enlarge:
The weird waviness is it being unduly flattened by the scanner, because I tried for way too long to get accurate colors with a camera and GIMP and could not.
Pattern by Teresa Wentzler (and a giant pain, it varies the height of the rows it puts in and so I had to take a ruler and pencil in lines so that I could have a proper 1 square = 1 stitch chart). Stitched over two on Antique White MCG evenweave; main stitching in silk, Caron Waterlillies, Cherry 101; satin stitch and Algerian eyelets in DMC pearl cotton size 12, Ecru (best way to do satin stitches EVER); backstitch in DMC 801 (done over one on the diagonals); shiny bits in Krenik #4 Braid Beige (013).
The colors don't quite glow the way I wanted when I saw the silk in the store, but I'm pretty happy with it all the same.
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Date: 2015-04-25 12:03 pm (UTC)I just, this pattern, it's computer-generated, why would you have some rows be 1 stitch high and others be 2, or 3? Some of us are bad at spatial things, especially when it comes to diagonals and fucking quarter stitches!
Despite that, I still have that giant dragon all kitted up and ready to go; it's, uh, what number on my list? Let's see:
1) auction bookmark, if anyone bids
2) squirrel for the Pip--he realized that SteelyKid had THREE pictures in her room and he only had TWO, so I agree to make him another
3) red dragon that's been a WIP for years, assuming nothing terrible has happened to it in not-very-good storage
4) (snowflake bookmark for Pamela as travel project)
5) celestial dragon!
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Date: 2015-04-25 12:42 pm (UTC)Happy stitching!